Having been an engineer for a power company many years ago, it was rather easy to see this coming. The political pressure at the top and leading to the corporate board room to shift to alternate energy sources was increasing. At meetings, lobbyists would threaten us with ya'all better listen to me ( "donate") so that the legislation remains friendly to you. This was happening over 20 years ago. In the long run, they still screw you no matter how much you pay the pricks.
Since that time, I've seen the company buckle under and build solar/wind farms in order to keep the state and the district of crooks happy. It cost lots of jobs where the highly skilled line supervisors/engineers/staff were either let go early, or forced to retire. They did this with a time study that was highly corrupt and flawed. Young and dumb was usually brought in to try and fill the void. Combine this with the green movement, poor infrastructure, and heavy government regulation, and it is no wonder we are in the state that we are in.
Having worked in 12KV to 760KV station yards, hydroelectric, coal, and nuclear plants. I came to the conclusion that nuclear was the way to go...................But it will never happen. When you have to get environmental permits for just about everything in a public utility, it really adds to costs and delays. What always amazed me was how ignorant the public was in these matters. It was always the utilities fault for the price increases, yet they never put 2+2 together to see it was their favorite fair haired politicians that had the hands in their pockets.
Don't look for any of this to get any better as the assholes in government could care less how many of you unwashed die from these policies. They'll always have their pie of the pie.